Insect-monitoring display one of six to seek out

For six days the show will be the centrepoint of the gardening world. It is traditionally a celebration of imaginative floral displays from every continent, but gardens are becoming increasingly naturalistic. The domestic-style designs formerly sponsored by champagne houses, banks and investment companies are falling out of favour.

Last week, gardening guru Bunny Guinness wrote in The Daily Telegraph about some of the top offerings from Chelsea this year. Some of the most innovative among that list included a lab to monitor the insects visiting, and another with cement-free paving.

Sara Price

Her creation is sponsored by landscape maintenance company Nurture Landscapes. The light, naturalistic planting is replete with irises. Its design was inspired by the artist and plantsman Cedric Morris and the plants he grew at Benton End, Suffolk.

Clive West

His garden, for charity Centrepoint, displays a mix of wild flowers and ornamentals. Its focal point is the ruin of a sunken basement. The display is a nod to the estimated 120,000 homeless people in the UK aged between 18 and 24, with the uprooted tree providing a metaphor for those without a home.

Tom Massey

His garden for the Royal Entomological Society is supported by Project Giving Back. It features a lab built into the hillside that is modelled on an insect’s compound eye and will be used to monitor creatures visiting the garden. The message from this garden: that we must value insects.

Darren Hawkes

The Samaritans’ Listening Garden is made with several structures of old concrete farmyard floor. There is a serpent-like sculpture that runs through the planting, made from thousands of welded nails.

Hugo Bugg and Charlotte Harris

Their Horatio’s Garden is designed for wheelchairs, with a garden floor of eco terrazzo paving held together with the cement-free binder Cemfree.

Taina Suonio and Anne Hamilton

The Sanctuary Garden has a large glass platform to hold 13 people above a mini greenhouse. It is raising awareness of cavernoma, a disease causing clusters of abnormal blood vessels.